sailing master

1. 1.

   the ship's officer in charge of navigation

   Synonymsnavigator

   Broaderofficer

Questions about sailing master

What does sailing master mean?

sailing master means "the ship's officer in charge of navigation".

What is another word for sailing master?

Close synonyms include navigator. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sailing master a common word?

sailing master is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.